Storia do Mogor 281.12.7

281.12.7

Thus, to obtain from the king his audience of leave-taking, he represented that he had been at his court nearly a year, and he supplicated his majesty for permission to depart. In consideration for this favour, he would pay down the three hundred thousand rupees. The envoy's proposition was laid before the king, but there they spoke of only one hundred thousand rupees as the present, the officials keeping back the other two hundred thousand for themselves. The prince accepted the present, and ordered the speedy preparation of the documents, on condition, however, that the envoy should undertake in writing to be liable for all the losses at sea occasioned to his subjects by the pirates.